Hyde Name Origins.

The name "HYDE" is derived from the hide, a measure of land for taxation purposes, taken to be that area of land necessary to support a peasant family. In later times it was taken to be equivalent to 120 acres .

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Monday, 6 August 2012

Godley train turntable.

This fabulous photo was lent to us by Joe Lloyd and comes via David Stafford.

What a quality photo. I hadn't ever seen a train on the turntable before !Am I right in thinking that men used to push the turntable by hand, as shown on the photo?

The CLC turntable
in use at Godley Junction with much other activity. In one of the early
air raids on the Manchester area, a bomb exploded some 25 yards to the
right of the turntable, just in the field beyond the railway boundary
fence. Extreme left behind the main line up-side sidings, stand the
Signal Shop the building of which was authorized by the MS&LR Board
in 1873 and completed in 1875. The newer brick building was Walls Meat
Products Factory, now Kerry Foods and the extensive housing development
on the skyline is the Hattersley Housing Estate built post-war by
Manchester City Council.

12 comments:

wow what an excellent picture we used to play on this when we were kids then one day we went and they had removed it and all that was left was the big circle its nice to actually see it as it was with a steam train on it many thanks steve

what a great picture of the turntable brought- back memories of standing at the fence at the side of Tyms pond watching the engines being turned round.( was Tyms pond where the bomb landed?)have sent some pictures of how it is now totally unrecognizable.Thanks for all these trips back in time to the people who keep sending the pictures in.

Just come across this information on Wikipedia.Godley was the temporary terminus of the route to Sheffield when the first section of the Woodhead Line was opened on 17 November 1841, but the original station was located about ¼ mile further west. This temporary station was named Godley Toll Bar and closed on 11 December 1842 when the line was extended to Broadbottom.Godley East once had four platforms - two on the Manchester-Glossop Line and two linking the Woodhead Line with the Cheshire Lines Committee (CLC) route to Apethorne Junction (Woodley). The branch opened in 1866, after which Godley became known as Godley Junction.[1] The CLC platforms were only ever lightly used. The station and sidings were controlled by a single mechanical signal box which was located at the east end of the 'up' (Hadfield) platform.

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